There is an attitude that crops up quite often in American Christianity. It usually rises from the assumption that America was begun as, and still is, a “Christian nation.” It is a stringent defensiveness against any attempts to secularize the nation, politically or culturally. For instance, there is an outrage over the removal of the Ten Commandments [...]
Filed under: Culture on January 19th, 2008 | 9 Comments »
(I’m reminding myself of Fox News with that title. We report. You decide.)
I would love to know what kinds of topics you would like to see me discuss in the near future here at hope road. I love to talk about everything you see in the categories on the right-hand side, but I’m not limited [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous on January 16th, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I don’t like to place too much weight on the importance of blogging… because it is, after all, nothing more than disconnected community. And yet what we type out and post on our blogs, and what we say in response to others’ blogs, are part of our eternal imprint left on this earth. So in [...]
Filed under: Books/Writing, Christianity, Culture, Personal Reflection on January 15th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
“Do not let your adorning be external -
the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry,
or the clothing you wear -
but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart
with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit,
which in God’s sight is very precious.”
(1 Peter 3:3-4)
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Scripture on January 13th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The other day, I finished watching the last episode of the last season of Gilmore Girls. It involves college graduation and lots of sentimental goodbyes. I could not stop crying as I was watching it - yes, I’m sappy like that (and just to warn you, this whole entry is pretty sappy). But seriously, there [...]
Filed under: Career/Education, Personal Reflection on January 12th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I don’t have it all together.
I haven’t consciously tried to portray myself as having it all together. But in writing about issues that I care about, about the way things should be, it might be easy for you as a reader to get the idea that I have this thing called life all figured out.
And [...]
Filed under: My Life on January 10th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I have written quite a bit about the blessings of singleness, the opportunities to be had as a single, what singleness can/should look like, etc. I focus on this issue because I am single myself, and I know that contentment in singleness can be a huge struggle. But I never want to emphasize singleness so [...]
Filed under: Marriage/Family on January 8th, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Wendy at Reforming the Feminine writes about three things she’s learned from her tendency to be “Agenda Wendy” and disregard any interruptions to her plan:
Agenda Wendy has a plan. Something occurred to her that would be a really good thing to do. There’s nothing wrong with that. But then woe to the obstacle that gets [...]
Filed under: Time Management on January 6th, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This is a stream-of-consciousness list of things I want to share with my sisters in Christ. I’m still learning many of them myself. They’re not really in a particular order, but I feel so strongly about each of these points.
You are a creation of God, and your worth comes from that fact, not from what the males around you [...]
Filed under: Biblical Femininity, Culture, Marriage/Family, Singleness/Relationships on January 4th, 2008 | 39 Comments »
So I haven’t mentioned that one of the classes I’m taking this semester is weight training. I’m not kidding. Most people who know me would laugh at that statement, I think. I have to take an activities course in order to graduate, and that was the one that worked best with my schedule. I think [...]
Filed under: My Life on January 3rd, 2008 | 6 Comments »
